When the news broke in September of the FBI investigation into college basketball and agents were at the center of the corruption, Hall of Famer Jamaal Wilkes asked his sports agent son, Omar, if that’s how he does business.

There’s long been cynicism around agents. The movie “Jerry Maguire” might have humanized them, but when helping set up interviews for this story, a PR rep at Octagon Sports felt the need to explain that Omar is a “really good person.” Omar and his father rarely speak about business, but the FBI scandal piqued Jamaal’s interests. In Omar’s line of work, he surely saw how the game was played and his father feared maybe he had assimilated. “Who knows?” Jamaal says. “Sometimes people can get caught up over their head, so I flat-out asked him.”